https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpRku0nsu8g
― corpse pose (missingNO), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 07:01 (twelve years ago) link
Woah, thanks for the heads up on Emptyset.
Some interesting background here... http://bassmusicblog.com/the-return-of-subtext-emptyset-and-vexd-sort
"Emptyset have their new album 'Demiurge' due in a couple of weeks and hopefully we'll get to chat to Ginz about some of the work that went into making it - I know that at one point, they took everything they had made up to that point to an unfinished stately home, played it all though a massive PA, recorded the results through vintage microphones and then mixed that live reverb back into the original tracks, which is slightly more interesting than the usual 'yeah Kev came round with some 808 samples and I put a bassline from Massive over the top'."
Subtext looks like a label to watch:
"Bristol's experimental modern classical label"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Subtext/124153327659415#!/pages/Subtext/124153327659415?sk=app_178091127385
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
Empty set are damn good, they did a mix for us a while back too: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2009/11/interview-emptyset-caravan/ more info on what they're about too.
― jimitheexploder, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
new Emptyset reminds me more of Hecker or Pan Sonic than anything ppl can/would go out and dance to - I do like it but it's ~cold~
everything I've read abt the Andy Stott thing sounds like it's precision-tooled to blow me away, should really go buy it I guess
― puppetry of the pulis (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
The Andy Stott thing is good, if bass heavy in a "you must have headphones or a home audio system that gets that deep bass" way. Then again, that's kind of an entry requirement for this thread.
Not too familiar with Emptyset yet, but I get to see them right before Mika Vainio next week. Yesssss.
― mh, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
I put together a compilation inspired by this thread which you can download here: http://bit.ly/lfHGJF
― Barnaby, Hardly, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
if you can catch old apparatus live/av/dvd/whatevs I strongly suggest you do, shivers down the spine synaesthesia
― straightola, Monday, 6 June 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
Holy shit this new Emptyset album. Mencap otm, first thing I thought of was Pan Sonic. The first song (after the intro) sounds like doom metal, the way the kick distorts and delays and reverberates - could be a Southern Lord band! Well, sorta. Anyway, this rules.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Those guys were really cool live, and friendly when I ran into them after their show.
I realized later that telling them that they played a "great set" when their name is Emptyset is kind of silly, but oh well.
― mh, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
The name Emptyset seems a bit silly because Pan Sonic's alias ø means empty set, right?
― forest zombie (Vasco da Gama), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Yup! I think it's an homage.
Kind of funny that they played right before Mika Vainio at Mutek
― mh, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
aaand I just said that a few posts back. Whoops.
― mh, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
This is kinda mutant...
http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/06/introducing-ghosting-season/
Ghosting Seasons are a sort of post-rock/techno project, kinda noisy but with a bright techy sort of pulse. We've got a Spatial remix to give away too which is pretty damn good.
Fits here better than the other dance-ish threads anyway.
― jimitheexploder, Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Dalglish: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/06/sr-mix-89-dalglish-highpoint-lowlife/
Fits here a treat.
― jimitheexploder, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
barnaby, you are awesome
― tipper gore (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
i think the first emptyset album is a lot better than the second
i guess the difference is the first sounds a lot like the quiet, chilly mika vainio of yore whereas to my ears the second is much more "pan sonic"
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
To be honest, I just picked up the most recent one and not their first. I'll have to do so now.
I love me some pan sonic, though.
― mh, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
me too but i think metri / olenta / tulkinta are sort of next-level compared to the rest of the discography
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
Visiting London next week - what's a good shop to find these sorts of things? Also, minimal techno in general?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Phonica on Poland Street, Soho, is worth checking out.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
Did anyone check out the Boomkat dl - Thanet to Jodrell Bank? Lots of this kinda thing there. Very good.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks Kraudive! Will check it out...kinda hard to get some of this stuff in the states...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
There are a lot of record shops in the area - have a wander. Sister Ray on Berwick St and Sounds of The Universe on Broadwick St are both within half a mile of Phonica and are great. 3 of the UK's best record shops within a very short distance.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
hey barnaby what kind of file is that? what would i open it with
― flopson, Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of the stuff on this thread a little too timid for me. wish it were gloomier. or more dystopian. i did like that last emptyset album since someone mentioned emptyset. emptyset was supposed to be some extreme example of dubstep? or maybe i am confusing them with someone else. i will check this thread from time to time though.
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
i like justin's stuff in this vein, but i also kinda feel like he can smoke a joint and crank this shit out in his sleep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0mtwEtZlYk&feature=related
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
maybe i'm just more of a "dark ambient" fan. though i love beats too of course. just feel like the dubstep/avant techno stuff i hear doesn't hit as hard as i'd like it too. if you do like deep dark stuff, this is a great mix:
Xela & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is The Beginning Tholen - Skeletons of SteelVisions - Summoning the VoidYui Onodera & Celer - The Street of a Rainy, Gray DayJohn Chowning - PhonéPer Nørgård - IrisFire in the Head - I'm Not Here to Coexist, I'm Here to WinSky Burial - Chroma PolarisJean-Claude Risset - AvelBlood Box - Mother of Dust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zs5gUor3PI&feature=related
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
barnaby, you are awesome― tipper gore (nakhchivan), Wednesday, June 22, 2011
― tipper gore (nakhchivan), Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Ha, no problem.
hey barnaby what kind of file is that? what would i open it with― flopson, Thursday, June 23, 2011
― flopson, Thursday, June 23, 2011
It's just a .zip file, so something free like Stuffit Expander will open those for you.
Visiting London next week - what's a good shop to find these sorts of things? Also, minimal techno in general?― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, June 22, 2011
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, June 22, 2011
For the more ambient and/or noisier end of this stuff I would recommend Second Layer Records in Highgate.
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Thursday, 23 June 2011 08:20 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the recommendations everybody. Will try to hit all four of the ones mentioned.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 23 June 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
<3 your posts scott!
I'd agree that there are very few spots where the stuff this thread has kicked off with really gets the dread/noise factor that dark ambient, noise, or even the drone/doom metal stuff does. I think that at points, the Sandwell District/Downwards label stuff goes in that direction, but is still dancefloor-oriented.
Has anyone else listened to the new Andy Stott record? It's right in this vein and I've been listening to it quite a bit.
― mh, Thursday, 23 June 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Love the new Andy Stott.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 23 June 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
weird my computer doesnt recognize it as a .zip file & i have unzipped like six .zip/.rar files today wonder whats up
― flopson, Friday, 24 June 2011 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
the dark ambient connection w/ this stuff is Lull aka Mike Harris. he has strong ties to the Downwards/Sandwell District crew
but I'm not sure the stuff in this thread is really aiming for the same level of darkness as doom metal or whatever. i think particularly the UK guys are purposely placing themselves in the lineage of old school industrial stuff (in the same way that Panasonic and Porter Ricks and Noto were in the 90s/early 00s). see also the design aesthetic -- bleak imagery, xeroxed fanzine style
that Kevin Gormand Weiland 7" on Downwards is less techno/dub more noise. kinda sounds like early Cabs
this came out last year on Modern Love, I think, quite minimal but sick nonetheless, esp if you're into those Mika Vainio recs that Vahid mentioned upthread
http://youtu.be/xNXtrG4J_B8
http://youtu.be/GQbN1aXoGkY
― corpse pose (missingNO), Friday, 24 June 2011 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
actually discogs said it came out on Young Americans which is a Modern Love sub label. they put out a dope looking Daphne Oram boxset!
― corpse pose (missingNO), Friday, 24 June 2011 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
Are you on Windows? I couldn't unzip it with the Windows built-in "zip folders" extractor because the directory inside the zip has a " in its name and that's not a valid character in a Windows filename, but Winrar extracted it OK (gave me a bunch of error messages but all the files were there).
Thanks for the mix, Barnaby. Hadn't heard "Acidbathory" before and dug it, had an entertaining morning of listening to all the Mixcloud tracks which included it afterwards too thanks to their artist search thing.
― sambal dalek (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 24 June 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
I re-uploaded barnaby's mix in what might be more Windows-friendly form. Hope that's ok, barnaby.
dear mods, if barnaby requests this post be removed, please do so
― sambal dalek (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 24 June 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
My, my... I really like all this stuff on paper but I can't tear myself away from the Bear Family Gene Vincent boxed set.
― Phrygian (Call the Cops), Friday, 24 June 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol "Mike" Harris. Mick
― corpse pose (missingNO), Friday, 24 June 2011 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
I spend hours convincing myself that I don't need everything on Modern Love and its sublabels, then you have to post that Suum Cuique thing!
― mh, Friday, 24 June 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
thank you!
― flopson, Friday, 24 June 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
I re-uploaded barnaby's mix in what might be more Windows-friendly form. Hope that's ok, barnaby.dear mods, if barnaby requests this post be removed, please do so― sambal dalek (a passing spacecadet), Friday, June 24, 2011
― sambal dalek (a passing spacecadet), Friday, June 24, 2011
Thanks very much for doing this!
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
Loving the first track linked. shit, I fear ILM is making me disappear down rabbitholes again.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
guess the difference is the first sounds a lot like the quiet, chilly mika vainio of yore whereas to my ears the second is much more "pan sonic"
Inspired by this moonship post I've been listening to the first emptyset album a lot, and I get where it's definitely more like mika vainio's solo work, but I don't think I'd call it quiet or chilly! It's more throbbing and dancefloor-ready if anything.
― mh, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
That is to say, it reminds me more of his work as Ø than the work under his own name.
― mh, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
"primate", tommy four seven's first album, is incredible. The kind of techno that falls into this topic.
― sisilafami, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah when i was referring to "the quiet, chilly mika vainio of yore" i was referring to Ø records
i meant "chilly" as in cold, "quiet" as in understated
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
In that case, totally otm
― mh, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Would Actress fit in here? He's just given away some well nice tracks http://www.factmag.com/2011/07/15/actress-is-giving-away-tracks-on-his-twitter-again/
I heard the new Old Apparatus the other day, wasn't that into it really, not a patch on the first 12" anyway. Kinda sounds like Clouds but not quite as good.
― jimitheexploder, Saturday, 16 July 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSsUSFKLBHs
― jimitheexploder, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
Holy CHRIST this new Kangding Ray album (Or) is astonishing.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
i really like this Finding The Floor album by Profligate from a few years back.. moody industrial stuff https://www.discogs.com/Profligate-Finding-The-Floor/master/787275
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXuvx7fDe0Q
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 November 2017 02:47 (six years ago) link
New Kevin Drumm album is also very nice. https://kevindrumm.bandcamp.com/album/october-early-warning
― Federico Boswarlos, Thursday, 9 November 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
i really want that new contort yourself 80's tape comp! but i can't be buying stuff right now. worth it just for this track alone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLqCqOZkuAw
― scott seward, Friday, 10 November 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
this tv show on TNT, Good Behavior, keeps using Raime music as ominous soundtrack music and it’s passed cognitive dissonance into nodding to dark grooves
― mh, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link
Listening to old Hecate EPs and when she wasn't going 300 bpm breakcore she kinda had a proto-this-thread thing happening. On "The Payback" w/Kareem the track "Medusal" has that clanging drums and dubby reverb thing happening.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 4 February 2018 10:50 (six years ago) link
man I should read my posts before I click it looks like I know six words
There's a lot of stuff on Kareem's Zhark label worth checking out, actually, if you like crunchy beats, dark ambient or harder industrial techno.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 4 February 2018 11:13 (six years ago) link
Kinda love this and don’t know where to put it
https://youtu.be/EtFFpznPmbI
― circa1916, Saturday, 10 March 2018 05:16 (six years ago) link
Oooh, that's nice. Seems like it fits in here!
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
So really, does anyone know who Chasing Voices is?
― matt2, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:13 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
Nick Klein is maybe more beat-y but
https://summerisle.bandcamp.com/album/id-rather-sit-alone
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 May 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
cold vocals and noisy abstract industrial
https://chondriticsound.bandcamp.com/album/embodiment-2
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 28 June 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
Am I the only one who cares about this?
https://pitchfork.com/news/blackest-ever-black-shuts-down-issues-final-album/
(also, great graphic accompanying the piece)
No reason is given for ending the label, but I guess we can speculate
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 21 November 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
I had no idea! What a bummer, I loved that label.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 22 November 2019 05:37 (four years ago) link
That's a shame. They've put out some cracking stuff.
― paolo, Friday, 22 November 2019 07:45 (four years ago) link
Favourite BEB release anyone?
I'd probably go for the Flaming Tunes album
― paolo, Friday, 22 November 2019 07:49 (four years ago) link
It'd be Quarter Turns Over A Living Line for me. A beast of a record.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 22 November 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
So, farewell then Blackest Ever Black. As the label is no more I thought I'd out the fact I had a secret project on there & released a 10" & an album under the alias Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards a few years ago. I'm going to make it available as a free download next month.— Optimo (Espacio) (@JDTwitch) November 21, 2019
Well I'll be darned
― paolo, Friday, 22 November 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link
xp Quarter Turns was so good. Lately I've been listening to a lot of Carla dal Forno and the most recent Bremen album. And they reissued that Caroline K album a while back. I'm one of the few people who liked Jabu I guess.
And this!
https://blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com/album/sekundenschlaf
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 22 November 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
I guess BEB slowly morphed into Low Company: https://www.lowcompany.co.uk
The shop is killer and the weekly mailouts are highly recommended.
Very strong output on the house imprint also. Particularly that Brannten Schnüre LP:https://www.discogs.com/label/1450606-Low-Company
― Barnaby, Hardly, Saturday, 23 November 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
http://alteredtapedstates.bandcamp.com/album/flickering-lyghte-in-campsite
― With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link